I woke up this morning to the following article in our local paper:
http://www.coloradoan.com/viewart/2...oo-quickly?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
This is an AP article. A little Googling shows most papers seem to be running it with the headline "Born To Run Barefoot? Some End Up Getting Injured". Our paper ran it with the headline "Some Barefoot Runners Regret Ditching Sneakers Too Quickly".
Why is negativism so popular in our culture? (That's more rhetorical than anything else.) We consistently say we hate negative political ads yet they're shown over and over and over again to be effective - which is why they continue to be used. Those headlines could have just as easily been written as:
Jim
http://www.coloradoan.com/viewart/2...oo-quickly?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
This is an AP article. A little Googling shows most papers seem to be running it with the headline "Born To Run Barefoot? Some End Up Getting Injured". Our paper ran it with the headline "Some Barefoot Runners Regret Ditching Sneakers Too Quickly".
Why is negativism so popular in our culture? (That's more rhetorical than anything else.) We consistently say we hate negative political ads yet they're shown over and over and over again to be effective - which is why they continue to be used. Those headlines could have just as easily been written as:
- Born To Run Barefoot? Some Find Running Becomes Even MORE Fun
- Some Barefoot Runners Wish They'd Ditched Their Shoes Sooner
Jim